Department of English

Virgil P. Nemoianu
W. J. Byron Distinguished Professor of Literature and Ordinary Professor of Philosophy; member of the Comparative Literature Program.

Office Location: Marist 325
Office Phone: 202 319 5488
Email Address: nemoianv@cua.edu

Education: Ph.D., University of California, San Diego, 1971; doctor honoris causa, University of Cluj, Romania, 2003.

Research interests: Literary Theory, Romanticism, 19th- and 20th-century intellectual history, 20th-century literature, religion and literature.

Virgil Nemoianu is William J. Byron Distinguished Professor of Literature and Ordinary Professor of Philosophy at CUA, where he has taught since 1979. He has also taught at the Universities of Bucharest, California (Berkeley), Cincinnati, London, Cambridge, and Amsterdam. He has held leading positions in the International Comparative Literature Association, the Modern Language Association and the Association of Literary Critics and Scholars; he is a member of the European Academy of Arts and Sciences (Vienna).

Prof. Nemoianu has written, edited, or translated 16 books, written over 600 articles and reviews, and given more than 65 lectures in Europe, America, Africa, and Asia. His publications include The Taming of Romanticism. European Literature and the Age of Biedermeier (Harvard, 1985), The Theory of the Secondary. Literature, Progress and Reaction (Johns Hopkins, 1989), and The Triumph of Imperfection. The Silver Age of Sociocultural Moderation in Early Nineteenth-Century Europe (University of South Carolina Press, 2005). His latest book, on "Post modernism and Cultural Identities" is forthcoming in 2009 from CUA Press.

Among the classes he offers are Modern Criticism, Literary Criticism and Religion, British and Continental Romanticism, Postmodern Prose, Philosophy of Culture and Theories of Aesthetics.